-PTI New delhi: India’s milk production is estimated to have increased by 6.6 per cent to 176.35 million tonnes during the last financial year. “Milk production in the country is 165.4 million tonnes during 2016-17 and 176.35 million tonnes (provisional) during 2017-18,” Minister of State for Agriculture Krishna Raj has said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. She also informed that the projected milk production by 2021-22 is 254.5 million...
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537 dead in monsoon rains, floods in 6 states
-The Times of India NEW delhi: Heavy rains and floods have claimed 537 human lives across six states in the current monsoon season. Maharashtra is the worst affected with 139 fatal casualties so far, followed by Kerala with 126 deaths, West Bengal with 116, UP with 70, Gujarat with 52 and Assam with 34 deaths, according to data maintained by the home ministry’s National Emergency Response Centre. Another 13 persons are reported...
More »SC scan on info panel vacancies -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and nine states, including Bengal, to file affidavits within four weeks stating by when they would fill their vacant posts of information commissioners and, in some cases, even chief information commissioners. The bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan were hearing a petition from RTI activist Anjali Bharadwaj, who cited four vacancies in the Central Information Commission and many...
More »Kharif planting lags despite MSP hikes, normal monsoon -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express One reason for the MSPs not having the desired impact could be the delayed announcement. Farmers usually make sowing decisions before the onset of the monsoon. New delhi: The government may have substantially hiked minimum support prices (MSP) of crops being grown in the current kharif season. That, along with most parts of India receiving good rain until now, should have considerably boosted plantings by farmers this time. However, the...
More »Political slugfest over delhi starvation deaths; spotlight on right to food
-PTI NEW delhi: A political slugfest broke out today over the starvation deaths of three minors including a toddler in the national capital, with the BJP-led central government attacking the Kejriwal dispensation for the incident, which has yet again put the spotlight on lack of basic needs for a large section of the society. The horrific deaths taking place in delhi came as a big shock with the state's per capita income...
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